Tag: Belgium
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In Den Hengst
Click or not: In Den HengstThe Classics are more than just bike racing. It’s the melting pot of people that fill the cafés and bars, most not cyclists but each and every one with a knowledge of the sport, the history, the riders. You can pick out anyone from the throng of lubed fans lining the cobbles and kassien and… …
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That Makes Cyclocross In Belgium
Click or not: That Makes Cyclocross In BelgiumEven a promo video for a helmet gets the Belgian blood pumping. Belgium is the heartland of cyclocross. The discipline is more popular here than any other country in the world. This nation is the birthplace of great champions and the home of the most prestigious races. Laurens Sweeck from ERA-Circus explains a little bit… …
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(Off) Road Racing For Crossers
Click or not: (Off) Road Racing For Crossers“The most amazing race the world doesn’t watch.” The clickbait title and the muddy-kneed thumbnail of this video that came across my YouTube recommendations caught my eye like another episode of Wyn TV chit chat. I was intrigued, it suited my millennial ten minute attention span and it was a race I’d certainly never heard… …
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Tommeke On The Pingers
Click or not: Tommeke On The PingersIf you’ve ever wondered what Tom Boonen would look like full of MDMA and pumping it out to terrible Belgian Gabba (and who hasn’t), well wonder no more. With most of the crowd being either 12 or over 60, some dude wearing a bumbag under his armpit yelling at them and a bunch of skinny… …
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Festka Holds Onto The Classics
Click or not: Festka Holds Onto The ClassicsThe Euro road season is a strange beast. For us, all the best races of the year are at the beginning, when temperatures are still low, the cobbles are omnipresent and the riders are a special breed of tough. Then the weather gets warmer and the stage races take over and the winner of a… …
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Flandrian Friday: Spring Classics – The Next Level
Click or not: Flandrian Friday: Spring Classics – The Next LevelConsider yourself a true enthusiast of Flandrian racing? Then try these brief video delights, all focused around Le Samyn, a Belgian one-day Classic locally known as “Little Paris-Roubaix”. Racing coverage and the English language are both in limited supply here, but you do get a sense of the passion and atmosphere that surrounds bike racing… …
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Hurt Yourself, Drink Beer, Have Fun
Click or not: Hurt Yourself, Drink Beer, Have FunHave you ever really wanted to hurt yourself? On the bike that is… not just riding a really long way, or climbing an alpine pass, or crashing your brains out on a nasty trail. We mean taking the long distance, adding in the toughest cobblestone secteurs of Paris-Roubaix, detouring over to the steepest and roughest… …
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Videoboy
Click or not: VideoboyWhile The Videoboy Chronicles might suggest a more louche flavour of content, Sam Smith’s latest observation of American cyclocross racing is Cinéma vérité when it comes to bike media. Comfortably unfettered by “brought to you by…” or “powered by…” prefixes, Smith’s meandering lens provides glimpses of discounted and peripheral moments in bike racing; the muted… …